Back in January Microsoft encrypted all my hard drives without saying anything. I was playing around with a dual boot yesterday and somehow aggravated Secureboot. So my C: panicked and required a 40 character key to unlock.
Your key is backed up to the Microsoft account associated with your install. Which is considerate to the hackers. (and saved me from a re-install) But if you've got an unactivated copy, local account, or don't know your M$ account credentials, your boned.
Control Panel > System Security > Bitlocker Encryption.
BTW, I was aware that M$ was doing this and even made fun of the effected users. Karma.
Yeah, shit like HDCP is pushed by the film and TV industry.
Not really. Your problem in us is the lobbying lawyers. It's a political systematic problem. The demonic corp entities that crave endless growth will never not do anything that could potentially suck any data from or control a customer. The ones that get "money" for things like this are your law makers. The Republican authoritarian faschists are the winners, along with billionaires that can afford to buy laws. No movie producer. No one in any business except exploitation on the mass scale can profit from these moves. In some countries it is illegal. In the us it is business
No idea how you say all that but can't put together which industry specifically benefits from HDCP.
So not movie producers. You just mentioned them as another category being fucked? Because that's what they are
The film industry benefits from HDCP and all DRM, they aren't being fucked. I've looked back over the conversation, I think you have it flipped in your head.
No. The movie producers get none of the profits of a movie. Much like game devs don't get the profits of their games. The venture capital and wealthy owners, as previously discussed get the profit. You know this. You know what error you made. Stop slinking around so we can correct the facts
You absolute goober, you said the law makers get the money and now have the audacity to say "You know what error you made. Stop slinking around so we can correct the facts"? I can't with this. Thanks for entertaining me this morning.
No. You said movie producers. You can correct it for everyone. It is not wrong that the lobbyists and lawmakers along with the oligarchs get the brunt of the profit. You want to challenge that??? That it goes to a dude that makes fx for marvel 7 or to be honest a fucking script writer or cameraman???
You made a comparison to gaming and said the devs don't make the money. Who do you think makes the money in gaming? The producers. Why do you think the profits of film making go to law makers instead of the production company bank rolling the movie?
In all these fields, the investor (owner) pays salaries to producers then owns the ip and product. Sorry. I just assumed you knew this. They get nothing and will not lobby anything for drm. Overwhelmingly artists and creators and producers, writers, everyone involved in making your media is day workers just like you and me.
I think the disconnect here is that you're using the term producer differently from the way most people do. You're viewing a "producer" as a normal worker (like you and me). Back to the gaming comparison, the "developer" and "producer" of a game refer to companies. Go to a game's Steam page. There is a section for each of those. The term is the same for the individuals working there, so it can be confusing. When people say "game developers push for DRM" they don't mean the individual developers working there, they mean the company, and of course the owners (investors) control the company.
No need to be condescending and say things like "sorry, I just assumed you know this."